Seattle’s weekend
Music will be the center
Bumbershoot’s glories
One of my region’s iconic events Bumbershoot. An amazing streets and music festival. And, yes, is named after the German word for umbrella. Seattle’s love for irony.
Author: Carl Setzer
A blogger blogging from just north of Seattle.
Seasonal Motion
And so I’m falling
Forward into each season
Brewing energy
I find myself anticipating each new season’s arrival. The excitement wears off, though. Fortunately, new things come each change.
Blessings to you all!
Goodbye August
Now it’s striking me
That August will end today
September? Oh, my!
Seasons change, life flows and evolves. Sometimes we get to notice.
As Fall Approaches
Being from Seattle
I look forward to the fall
Cool air returning
High School Begins
Looking towards the moon
The high school students inside
And now I adapt
Dusk
As night descends
Summer’s air cools
I enjoy tranquility
A moment, flowing
Quickly, as life
Demands attention
Westward colors
Embrace the sky
Smoke, and other
Things, transcend
To beauty
When Night Falls
I love when night falls
As the air cools and light wanes
And peacefulness descends
Summer’s Moving To Fall
Summer’s moving to fall
Teachers brewing coffee
Preparing classrooms
My wife awake before me, coffee ground, french press timed. Classroom preparations, lesson planning and coordination, so much effort this last week before school starts back up.
Forget the thermometer, this shows the season’s change.
Seeking Purpose
Tuesdays: much to do
In this busyness, purpose
Seeking out value
An Element Of Efficiency: Slowing Down To Speed Up
With all the work I’ve done studying organization and productivity systems, a common element: taking time to thoughtfully consider actions. In today’s day-and-age, it’s easy to get caught up in stimulus:response, on reactive reactions. Or, as the adage goes, “running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off”.
Taking time to:
- Determine the scope of the problem
- It’s nature
- What really is the causality
- Reviewing our priorities
These are all critical to developing the correct solution for a particular challenge. There are always multiple responses and actions one can take. Knowing which one corrects the situation without creating a worse one requires considering all these elements.
It’s so easy, especially in today’s hyper-sped world, to lose sight of the time necessary. The urge to “do something NOW” is so powerful, and it often creates more damage than solution.
Our progress moves faster when we aren’t spending time repairing damage our inattention to details creates.